The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-03-27
ABOUT WOMEN.

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81, 0O0, 900.
Mrs. Bishop FL Warren. said to be the
richest woman in Colorado, made her own
money BY cattle-raising, and is now worth
SO, 000O00
Mrs. Francis Hodgson Burnett is said
to be writing a sequel to Little Lord
Fauntleroy,, which will show him as
young man.
Mrs. Logan declares that lher glate hus-
bands forthcoming book, "The Volunteer
Soldier in America was completed by
his own hand.
The number of women who remon-
strated against suffrage ia Massachusetts,
this year was eigaty-one, as against 5,741
petitioners in favor.
Miss Bessie Cleveland, pretty and
plump member OF Duffs Opera Company,
which was recently in Louisville, is
cousin of President Cleveland.
Mrs. George William Curtis, and other
ladies, took part in crusade against the
saloons of West New Brighten, Staten
Island, where one voter in every twenty
is a liquor seller.
Miss Carey Thomas, the dean of the
new college for women at Byrn Mawr,
took her degree at the University of
Zurich. The degree is conferred only
once in ten years.
The women voted at the primary
elections on March 6, and there was not
the slightest disturbance. One thousand
OF the leading women of Leavenworth
registered in two days.
Mrs. Josephine Brewer, of Minneapolis,
has rp0pivod hor 81
Governor as notary public The is the
first woman to be appointed under the
legislative act making women eligible.
Mrs. Mary E. Haggart made an elo-
quent plea for woman suffrage before a
recent mass meeting of workingmen in
Indianapolis. Sue predicted that human
ity as a whole, not humanity as half,
would before many deca les solve the
problem of humanity
Mrs. Hetty Green, the richest woman
in America, lately visited Chicago.
While she was going over a building that
belongs to her. the janitor. not knowing
her, became suspicious of the way she
pried about, and ordered. her to leave.
She was so pleased with mans vigilance
that she raised his wages.
Miss Helen Lenoir, the manager of Mr..
D.Oyly Carte's operate Companies,
crossed the Atlantic in charge of the
RuddYgore Company, and got them settled
and playing with expedition and without
fuss. In theatrical matters, Harper's
Bazaar" says, she is "the leading represent
alive of the administrative genius Of her
sex.
Mrs. E. Putnam Heaton, of the Brook
Ign Times, has BEEN weighing the dresses
at fashionable modiste's, to find the
average weight of a womans gown. She
found that jet-trimmed r ception dresses
weighed from 81 to 40 pounds, plain
walking dresses from 10 to 10. Nothing
was found that weighted less than 10
pounds.
Miss Marietta Holley. the author of
"Josiah Aliens Wife" '.Sweet Cicelv, :"
and other works in which the time honored
argument against woman suffrage are
made laughable, has, perhaps, aroused
more hearty, heSlthful and helpful mirth
than any other on this continent, with the
exception of Mark Twain. She is de-
scribed as large and fne-looking, with
handsome dark eyes, and face express
ing humor, and full of peace and content;
a warm-hearted. unaffected, entertaining
woman.
The Pall-Ma Gazette has invited its
readers to imagine themselves Dante, and
10 people Paradise, Purgatory, aud the
inferno with English men and women of
this century. Chinese" Gordon had the
largest number of votes for Paradise.
Next 10 him, but receiving only half as
many votes, came Gladstone. Four
women's names appear among the first
thirteen Florence, Nightingale, Queen
Victoria Sister Dora,' and Mrs. Joseph
me E. Butler, Mrs. Butler, Cardinal New
man, and Lord Beaconsfeld received the
same number OF votes.
Judge Edwards Perrepont has just got
back from France, where he went to ar
range the Marriage settlements of an
American woman. worth several millions,
who was to marry French marquis
Judge Pierrepont says: THE power
which the French law gives to a husband
over bis wife, when there are no ante
nuptial limitations, can almost be COM
pared to the power of the Southern slave
holder over his slave Tho French hus-
band cannot sell his wife, but with that
exception he has almost unbounded con
troll over her liberty and her property"
Protective Agencies for Women.
The good work done by the PRO
Iective Agencies for Woven and Child
rem is beyond all praise. Collecting
wages that would Otherwise be kept back,
saving girls who are in Danger of being
IN iced away, looking after deserted wives,
defending women from fraudulent agents
who pro fess to sill sewing machines on
the instalment p'an,-all these and many
other ways of helping and defending those
who need it, are employed by the Pro-
tectiYe AGENCIES. The greatest trouble